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> A lot of voting systems, mostly ranked systems, are essentially black boxes. These can't easily be understood because often, one can't publish intermediate vo
by dragonwriter 2y ago
> A lot of voting systems, mostly ranked systems, are essentially black boxes. These can't easily be understood because often, one can't publish intermediate voting tallies without compromising anonymity.
There are some voting systems where intermediate tallies are complex to produce, very large, or hard to understand, but I can't think of any where they would compromise anonymity.
- Aloisius 2y agoBy intermediate tallies, I mean ones that could be directly used with others to compute the final result. This can't be done most ranked voting systems in common use in races with truly unique cast ballots - likely in races with a large number of candidates - since one can't do the aggregation necessary to ensure the level of anonymity necessary to prevent someone from verifying you voted the way you told/paid them to. Without them, you can't produce the intermediate counts (often done at the local level) that can be used to calculate the final result.